March 5......

March 5 is the 64th (65th in leap years) day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 301 days remaining in the year on this date.

{Disclaimer: I have attempted to give credit to the many different sources that I get entries. Any failure to do so is unintentional. Any statement enclosed by brackets like these are the opinion of the blogger, A Proud Liberal.}

EVENTS

● 254 – St. Lucius I ends his reign as Catholic Pope

● 363 - Roman Emperor Julian moves from Antioch with an army of 90,000 to attack the Sassanid Empire, in a campaign which will bring to his own death.

● 1046 - Naser Khosrow begins the seven-year Middle Eastern journey which he will later describe in his book Safarnama.

● 1179 - The Third Lateran Council opened under Alexander III. It was attended by 300 bishops who enacted measures against the Waldenses and Albigensians. Lateran III also mandated that Popes were to be elected by two-thirds vote from the assembled cardinals.

● 1461 - Henry VI was deposed by Duke of York during War of the Roses

● 1496 - English King Henry VII grants to Henry Cabot the right to "subdue, occupy, and possess" any lands that he might find in the New World.

● 1528 - Utrecht Governor Maarten van Rossum plunders The Hague

● 1555 - French-born Swiss reformer John Calvin wrote in a letter to Philip Melanchthon: 'It behooves us to accomplish what God requires of us, even when we are in the greatest despair respecting the results.'

● 1558 - Smoking tobacco introduced in Europe by Francisco Fernandes

● 1579 - Betuwe joins Union of Utrecht

● 1616 - Copernicus' "de Revolutionibus" placed on Catholic Forbidden index

● 1623 - 1st American temperance law enacted, Virginia

● 1624 - In the American colony of Virginia, the upper class was exempted from whipping by legislation.

● 1651 - South Sea dike in Amsterdam breaks after storm

● 1684 - Emperor Leopold I, Poland & Venice sign Heilig Covenant of Linz

● 1689 - Daniel Finch, 2nd Earl of Nottingham is named Secretary of State for the Northern Department.

● 1743 - In Boston, editor Thomas Prince published the first issue of his weekly, "The Christian History." It was the first religious journal published in America.

● 1746 - Jakobijnse troops leave Aberdeen

● 1766 - Antonio de Ulloa, the first Spanish governor of Louisiana, arrives in New Orleans.

● 1770 - Boston Massacre. Tri-racial American revolutionist Crispus Attucks became America's first black hero (despite evidence he may not have been black at all, but rather, a Natick Indian) when he joined a mob attacking a British peacekeeping force and was shot (the first American killed in the revolution) during the ensuing melee. In all, five were killed and another six injured.

● 1783 - King Stanislaus Augustus Poniatowski grants rights to Jews of Kovno

● 1784 - Thomas Townshend, 1st Viscount Sydney is named President of the Board of Trade.

● 1793 - French troops are defeated by Austrian forces and Liège is recaptured.

● 1795 - Amsterdam celebrates Revolution on the Dam; Square of Revolution

● 1795 - Treaty of Basel-Prussia ends war with France

● 1820 - Dutch city of Leeuwarden forbids Jews to go to synagogues on Sundays

● 1821 - Monroe is 1st President inaugurated on March 5th, because 4th was Sun

● 1824 - First Burmese War: The British officially declare war on Burma.

● 1836 - Samuel Colt makes the first production-model revolver (.34-caliber).

● 1836 - Mexico attacks Alamo

● 1842 - Over 500 Mexican troops led by Rafael Vasquez invade Texas, briefly occupy San Antonio and then head back to the Rio Grande.

● 1845 - Congress appropriates $30,000 to ship camels to western US

● 1848 - In Battle of Abiqua, whites attack Klamath tribe camp at Abiqua Creek near Salem, Oregon Territory; 13 men and women killed.

● 1848 - Louis Antoine Garnier-Pages is named French minister of Finance.

● 1849 - Zachary Taylor sworn in as 12th President

● 1850 - Birth of Daniel B. Towner, American music evangelist. An associate of D.L. Moody, Towner composed over 2,000 hymn tunes, including AT CALVARY ("Years I Spent in Vanity and Pride"), MOODY ("Marvelous Grace of our Loving Lord") and TRUST AND OBEY ("When We Walk With the Lord").

● 1850 - The Britannia Bridge across the Menai Strait between the Isle of Anglesey and the mainland of Wales is opened.

● 1856 - Georgia becomes 1st state to regulate railroads

● 1860 - Parma, Tuscany, Modena and Romagna vote in referenda to join Kingdom of Sardinia.

● 1861 - The "Stars and Bars" is adopted as the flag of the Confederate States of America.

● 1862 - Union troops under Brigadier-General Wright occupy Fernandina FL

● 1867 - An abortive Fenian uprising against English rule took place in Ireland.

● 1868 - Stapler patented in England by C H Gould

● 1868 - A court of impeachment is organized in the United States Senate to hear charges against President Andrew Johnson.

● 1871 - Birth of Rosa Luxemburg (1871-1919), Samosc, Poland. Jewish Polish leader in German socialist and anti-war movements. Founded, with Karl Liebinecht, the radical Spartacus League in 1916. After the Spartacist uprising in Berlin, they were arrested and murdered by German soldiers.

● 1872 - George Westinghouse Jr patents triple air brake for trains

● 1877 - Rutherford B. Hayes is publicly inaugurated as the 19th President of the United States (he was privately inaugurated on March 3).

● 1879 - The first group of black so-called exodusters, en route to Kansas, arrives in St. Louis aboard the steamer Colorado. Eager to escape harsh sharecropper contracts, pass laws, imprisonment, and murder, thousands of African Americans are looking to Kansas as the promised land. Many pour onto the steamboats nearly destitute and knowing nothing about the state. Tennessee cabinetmaker "Pap" Singleton, who calls himself the Father of the Colored Exodus, prints handbills encouraging the migration. Later this year, Singleton Colony is established near what becomes Emporia, Kansas. A steamboat strike will slow the migration and, by 1881, the flood of "exodusters" is reduced to a trickle.

● 1882 - Birth of Dora Marsden (1882-1960) lives. British individualist anarchist and militant suffragette.

● 1886 - In Paris, the anarchist Charles Gallo throws a bottle of hydrocyanic acid into the Stock Exchange. The bottle does not explode, but spreads a bad smell which set off a panic. Gallo then draws randomly fired five shots with a revolver without hitting anyone.

● 1890 - Birth of writer and anarchist revolutionary B. Traven (1890-1969), Chicago. Traven kept his identity secret for years; variously reported to have been born in 1882 and in Poland, his roots were revealed to the world only upon his death. Anarchist author, aka Ret Marut, Hal Croves, Bruno Traven, Traven Torsvan, Otto Feige. Spent a portion of his life hiding his tracks, changing identity, country, and jobs. A Stirnerite anarchist, he joined the Bavarian Soviet of 1919 with Gustav Landauer and other anarchists. Escaping adeath sentence in Munich, he disappeared and eventually wound up in Mexico, formally emigrating and renouncing his U.S. citizenship in 1951. Among his internationally best-selling novels, many set among the poor of southern Mexico, the best known is "The Treasure of Sierra Madre."

● 1894 - Archibald Philip Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery becomes First Lord of the Treasury.

● 1894 - Seattle authorizes 1st municipal employment office in US

● 1896 - Italian Governor of Eritrea, General Baldissera, reaches Massawa

● 1896 - Italian premier Crispi resigns

● 1897 - American Negro Academy forms

● 1900 - Two U.S. battleships leave for Nicaragua to halt revolutionary disturbances.

● 1901 - Germany and Britain began negotiations with hopes of creating an alliance.

● 1902 - In France, the National Congress of Miners decided to call for a general strike for an 8-hour day.

● 1904 - Nikola Tesla, in Electrical World and Engineer, describes the process of ball lightning formation.

● 1905 - Russian troops begin to retreat from Mukden, Manchuria after losing 100,000 troops in three days.

● 1907 - The second Duma opens in St. Petersburg, Russia and 40,000 demonstrators have to be dispersed by Russian troops.

● 1907 - 1st radio broadcast of a musical composition aired

● 1908 - Sir Rex Harrison, the Academy Award-winning English stage and film actor, was born.

● 1908 - 1st ascent of Mount Erebus, Antarctica

● 1910 - In Philadelphia, PA, 60,000 people left their jobs to show support for striking transit workers.

● 1910 - The Moroccan envoy signed the 1909 agreement with France.

● 1912 - Spanish steamer "Principe de Asturias" sinks northeast of Spain, 500 die

● 1912 - The Italians became the first to use dirigibles for military purposes. They used them for reconnaissance flights behind Turkish lines west of Tripoli.

● 1915 - World War I: LZ 33, a zeppelin, is damaged by enemy fire and stranded south of Ostend.

● 1916 - Spanish football club Real Club Deportivo Mallorca founded.

● 1917 - Woodrow Wilson is inaugurated for a second term as President of the United States.

● 1917 - First edition of "Pravda" printed.

● 1917 - Wobblies (Industrial Workers of the World, aka IWW) go on trial, Everett, Washington.

● 1918 - Bolshevist Russia moves the national capital from Petrograd to Moscow.

● 1923 - Montana & Nevada become 1st states to enact old age pension laws

● 1924 - Computing-Tabulating-Recording Corp becomes IBM

● 1924 - King Hussein of Hedzjaz appoints himself kalief

● 1924 - Shefqet Verlaci becomes Prime Minister of Albania.

● 1927 - U.S. Marines land in China "to protect U.S. property" during a civil war there.

● 1931 - Gandhi & British viceroy Lord Irwin sign pact

● 1931 - Daniel Salamanca Urey is named President of Bolivia.

● 1933 - Great Depression: President Franklin D. Roosevelt declares a "bank holiday", closing all United States banks and freezing all financial transactions for a period of ten days.

● 1933 - Germany's Nazi Party wins majority in parliament (43.9%-17.2M votes)

● 1934 - Mother-in-law's day 1st celebrated (Amarillo TX)

● 1935 - 1st premature baby health law in US (Chicago)

● 1936 - First flight of the Supermarine Spitfire fighter airplane Type 300.

● 1937 - U.S. officially apologizes to Nazi Germany for New York Mayor LaGuardia's reference to Adolf Hitler as a "brown-shirted fanatic." {Somebody should have given the mayor a medal for straight talk and clear thinking.}

● 1940 - Members of Soviet politbiuro sign an order for the execution of 25,700 Polish intelligentsia, including 14,700 Polish POW, known also as Katyn massacre.

● 1942 - Bosnia Tito establishes 3rd Proletarit Brigade in Bosnia

● 1942 - Japanese troop march into Batavia

● 1943 - Germany called fifteen and sixteen year olds for military service due to war losses.

● 1943 - Anti fascist strikes in Italy

● 1943 - RAF bombs Essen Germany

● 1943 - First flight of Gloster Meteor jet aircraft in the United Kingdom.

● 1944 - Italian anarchist Pasquale Binazzi, 71, dies, Spezia.

● 1945 - Allies bombs The Hague, Netherlands

● 1945 - Generals Eisenhower, Patton & Patch meet in Luneville

● 1945 - US 7th Army Corps captures Cologne

● 1945 - World War II: "Battle of the Ruhr" begins.

● 1946 - Winston Churchill uses the phrase "Iron Curtain" in his speech at Westminster College in Fulton, Missouri.

● 1946 - Hungarian Communists and Social Democrats co-found the Left Bloc.

● 1948 - US rocket flies record 4800 KPH to 126k height

● 1949- The Jharkhand Party is founded in India.

● 1951 - The religious program "Circuit Rider" debuted over ABC television. The broadcast featured music selections and biographies of evangelists, and was produced by Franklin W. Dyson.

● 1953 - Stalin dies of stroke, Moscow, USSR. Also known as the lovable/huggable "Napoleon" in George Orwell's "Animal Farm." He had been in power for 29 years.

● 1956 - US court victory for black students; The United States Supreme Court upholds a ban on racial segregation in state schools, colleges and universities.

● 1957 - British Gold Coast becomes Ghana, first independent nation of sub-Saharan Africa.

● 1957 - Eamon de Valera's Fianna Fail-party wins election in Ireland

● 1958 - U.S. B-47 jettisons atomic bomb off Georgia coast after mid-air collision.

● 1958 - Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region is established.

● 1958 - Explorer 2 spacecraft launches, fails to reach Earth orbit.

● 1959 - Iran & US sign economic & military treaty

● 1962 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site

● 1963 - Country music singer Patsy Cline died in a plane crash near Camden, Tenn., at age 30.

● 1964 - Ceylon declares emergency crisis due to unrest.

● 1966 - 75 MPH air currents cause BOAC 707 crash above Mount Fuji, 124 die

● 1966 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site

● 1968 - U.S. launches Solar Explorer B, aka Explorer 37 from Wallops Island to study the Sun.

● 1969 - Gold reaches then record high ($47 per ounce) in Paris France

● 1969 - Gustav Heinemann elected President of West-Germany

● 1970 - 3 SDS Weathermen terrorist group bomb 18 West 11th St in New York NY

● 1970 - A nuclear non-proliferation treaty goes into effect after ratification by 43 nations. Thank Almighty we have Shrub to show us the error of our ways.

● 1970 - Dubnium atoms first detected conclusively.

● 1973 - Mid-air collision kills 68; Sixty-eight passengers and crew die when two Spanish aircraft collide in mid-air over France.

● 1973 - Donald DeFreeze, future Symbionese Liberation Army leader, escapes from Vacaville Prison.

● 1974 - Yom Kippur War: Israeli forces withdrew from the west bank of the Suez Canal.

● 1976 - British pound falls below $2 U.S. for the first time.

● 1977 - U.S. President Jimmy Carter appeared on CBS News with Walter Cronkite for the first "Dial-a-President" radio talk show.

● 1978 - China adopts new constitution stressing economic development over revolutionary ideology. Retains extensive sections guaranteeing due process and freedom. (Try not to giggle.)

● 1978 - Landsat 3 is launched from Vandenberg AFB in California.

● 1979 - Detection equipment picks up a gamma ray burst originating from the Large Magellanic Cloud, leading to the discovery of soft gamma repeaters.

● 1979 - Voyager 1's closest approach to Jupiter, 172000 miles.

● 1980 - Earth satellites record gamma rays from remnants of supernova N-49.

● 1981 - US government grants Atlanta $1 million to search for black boy murderer

● 1982 - Comedian John Belushi was found dead of a drug overdose at age 33.

● 1982 - Venera 14, a Soviet satellite arrives at the planet Venus.

● 1983 - Bob Hawke (Labour) defeats Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser (Conservative)

● 1984 - Supreme Court (5-4); city may use public money for Nativity scene

● 1984 - US accuse Iraq of using poison gas {We should know, we sold it to them.}

● 1988 - Simultaneous demonstrations against nuclear "mafia," Essen, Gorleben, Frankfurt, and Regensburg, West Germany.

● 1988 - Constitution of Turks and Caicos Islands restored and revised.

● 1991 - Iraq repealed its annexation of Kuwait

● 1991 - Iraq releases all Gulf War prisoners.

● 1992 - Ethics committee votes to reveal congressmen who bounced checks

● 1993 - Fokker 100 crashes at Skopje Macedonia, 81 die

● 1993 - Johnson gets life ban from athletics; Disgraced Olympic sprinter Ben Johnson is banned from athletics for life after failing a drugs test for a second time.

● 1994 - Ukraine, voluntarily agreeing to give up nuclear weapons, begins transfer of its nuclear stockpile to Russia.

● 1995 - Estonia Centrumlinkse Coalition party wins parliamentary election

● 1995 - Graves of czar Nicholas & family found in St Petersburg

● 1995 - The Free Internet Chess Server was brought online and remains operational today.

● 1997 - Representatives of North Korea and South Korea met for first time in 25 years, for peace talks in New York.

● 1998 - NASA announced that an orbiting craft had found enough water on the moon to support a human colony and rocket fueling station.

● 1998 - It was announced that Air Force Lt. Col. Eileen Collins would lead crew of Columbia on a mission to launch a large X-ray telescope. She was the first woman to command a space shuttle mission.

● 1999 - Paul Okalik is elected first Premier of Nunavut.

● 2001 - In Mecca, 35 Muslim pilgrims are crushed to death during the annual Hajj pilgrimage.

● 2001 - In Santee, California, a school massacre occurs at Santana High School, leaving 2 dead and 15 wounded.

● 2001 - Vice President Dick Cheney underwent an angioplasty for a partially blocked artery after going to a hospital with chest pains.

● 2003 - Natalie Maines of the Dixie Chicks provokes controversy in the U.S. by stating that the band was "ashamed the president of the United States is from Texas."

● 2004 - Martha Stewart was found guilty of lying about the reason for selling 3,298 shares of ImClone Systems stock, conspiracy, making false statement and obstruction of justice.

● 2004 - The Ottawa Senators and Philadelphia Flyers set a record for most penalty minutes in one game with 419.

● 2006 - AT&T Inc. announced it was buying BellSouth Corp., a big step toward resurrecting the old Ma Bell telephone system.

● 2006 - Three 6 Mafia become the first African-American hip-hop group to win an Academy Award for Best Song and the first hip-hop artists to ever perform at the ceremony.

BIRTHS

● 1133 - King Henry II of England (d. 1189)

● 1324 - King David II of Scotland (d. 1371)

● 1512 - Gerardus Mercator, Flemish cartographer (d. 1594)

● 1563 - John Coke, English politician (d. 1644)

● 1575 - William Oughtred, English mathematician (d. 1660)

● 1585 - John George I, Elector of Saxony (d. 1656)

● 1637 - Jan van der Heyden, Dutch painter of cityscapes (d. 1712)

● 1658 - Antoine Laumet de La Mothe, sieur de Cadillac, French explorer (d. 1730)

● 1693 - Johann Jakob Wettstein, Swiss theologian (d. 1754)

● 1696 - Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, Italian painter (d. 1770)

● 1703 (N.S.) - Vasily Kirillovich Trediakovsky, Russian poet (d. 1768)

● 1748 - Jonas C. Dryander, Swedish botanist (d. 1810)

● 1748 - William Shield, English musician (d. 1829)

● 1750 - Jean-Baptiste Gaspard d'Ansse de Villoison, French classical scholar (d. 1805)

● 1794 - Jacques Babinet, French physicist (d. 1872)

● 1814 - Wilhelm von Giesebrecht, German historian (d. 1889)

● 1815 - John Wentworth, American politician (d. 1888)

● 1817 - Austen Henry Layard, English archaeologist (d. 1894)

● 1836 - Charles Goodnight, American cattle rancher (d. 1929)

● 1852 - Lady Augusta Gregory, Irish writer and playwright (d. 1932)

● 1853 - Howard Pyle, American author and illustrator (d. 1911)

● 1867 - Louis-Alexandre Taschereau, Premier of Quebec (d. 1952)

● 1869 - Michael von Faulhaber, German cardinal and archbishop of Munich (d. 1952)

● 1870 - Frank Norris, American writer (d. 1902)

● 1871 - Rosa Luxemburg, Socialist revolutionary (d. 1919)

● 1873 - Olav Bjaaland, Norwegian explorer and cross-country skier (d. 1961)

● 1874 - Arthur Schendel, Dutch novelist and short-story writer (d. 1946)

● 1874 - Henry Travers, British actor (d. 1965)

● 1876 - Edouard Belin, French engineer and inventor (d. 1963)

● 1879 - Sir William Beveridge, British economist (d. 1963)

● 1886 - Dong Biwu, High-ranking member of the Communist Party of China (d. 1975)

● 1887 - Heitor Villa-Lobos, Brazilian composer (d. 1959)

● 1897 - Set Persson, Swedish communist politician (d. 1960)

● 1898 - Zhou Enlai, Premier of the People's Republic of China (d. 1976)

● 1898 - Soong May-ling, Chinese wife of Chiang Kai-Shek (d. 2003)

● 1904 - Karl Rahner, German theologian (d. 1984)

● 1908 - Irving Fiske, American writer, playwright, (d. 1990)

● 1908 - Sir Rex Harrison, English actor (d. 1990)

● 1910 - Józef Marcinkiewicz, Polish mathematician (d. 1940)

● 1915 - Laurent Schwartz, French mathematician (d. 2002)

● 1918 - James Tobin, American economist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2002)

● 1920 - José Aboulker, anti-Nazi resistance fighter

● 1920 - Virginia Christine, American actress (d. 1996)

● 1921 - Elmer Valo, baseball player (d. 1998)

● 1922 - James Noble, Actor

● 1922 - Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian writer and film director (d. 1975)

● 1923 - David Nathan, Welsh journalist (d. 1966)

● 1923 - Laurence Tisch, American investor

● 1927 - Jack Cassidy, American actor (d. 1976)

● 1934 - Daniel Kahneman, Israeli economist, Nobel Prize laureate

● 1934 - James B. Sikking, American actor

● 1936 - Canaan Banana, first President of Zimbabwe (d. 2003)

● 1936 - Dean Stockwell, American actor

● 1937 - Olusegun Obasanjo, leader of Nigeria

● 1938 - Fred Williamson, American football player and actor

● 1939 - Peter Woodcock, Canadian serial killer

● 1939 - Pierre Wynants, Belgian chef

● 1939 - Samantha Eggar, British actress

● 1940 - Malcolm Hebden, British television and stage actor

● 1942 - Felipe González Márquez, Prime Minister of Spain

● 1943 - Billy Backus, American boxer

● 1944 - Roy Gutman, American journalist, Pulitzer Prize winner

● 1944 - Lucio Battisti, Italian singer (d. 1998)

● 1945 - Paschal English, American Survivor contestant

● 1946 - Michael Warren, Actor

● 1947 - Clodagh (Eddie) Rodgers, Irish singer

● 1948 - Eddy Grant, Guyana-born singer

● 1948 - Elaine Paige, English singer and actress

● 1949 - Franz Josef Jung, Commander-in-chief of the German Bundeswehr

● 1952 - Alan Clark, Rock musician (Dire Straits)

● 1954 - Marsha Warfield, American actress, comedienne

● 1955 - Penn Jillette, American magician and comedian

● 1956 - Teena Marie, Singer

● 1956 - Adriana Barraza, Actress ("Babel")

● 1957 - Mark E. Smith, vocalist with The Fall

● 1958 - Andy Gibb, English-born Australian singer and teen idol (d. 1988)

● 1962 - Jonathan Penner, American actor and Survivor contestant

● 1962 - Charlie Reid, Rock singer (The Proclaimers)

● 1962 - Craig Reid, Rock singer (The Proclaimers)

● 1966 - Michael Irvin, American football player

● 1969 - MC Solaar, French hiphop artist

● 1970 - John Frusciante, American musician (Red Hot Chili Peppers)

● 1970 - Rome, R&B singer

● 1971 - Evil Jared Hasselhoff, American musician (Bloodhound Gang)

● 1971 - Jeffrey Hammonds, baseball player

● 1972 - Luca Turilli, Italian musician (Rhapsody)

● 1973 - Ryan Franklin, baseball pitcher

● 1973 - Yannis Anastasiou, Greek footballer

● 1974 - Jens Jeremies, German footballer

● 1974 - Kevin Connolly, Actor ("Entourage")

● 1974 - Eva Mendes, American actress

● 1974 - Matt Lucas, British comedian

● 1975 - Jolene Blalock, American actress (''Enterprise'' and "Shark")

● 1975 - Niki Taylor, American model

● 1975 - Sasho Petrovski, Australian footballer

● 1976 - Sarunas Jasikevicius, Lithuanian basketball player

● 1976 - Paul Konerko, American baseball player

● 1977 - Bryan Berard, American hockey player

● 1977 - Wally Szczerbiak, American basketball player

● 1982 - Daniel Carter, New Zealand rugby player

● 1985 - Ken'ichi Matsuyama, actor

● 1986 - Matty Fryatt, English footballer

● 1989 - Jake Lloyd, American actor (''Star Wars'' films)

DEATHS

● 1534 - Antonio da Correggio, Italian painter (b. 1489)

● 1539 - Nuno da Cunha, Portuguese governor in India (b. 1487)

● 1592 - Michael Coxcie, Flemish painter (b. 1499)

● 1611 - Shimazu Yoshihisa, Japanese warlord and samurai (b. 1533)

● 1622 - Ranuccio I Farnese, Duke of Parma (b. 1569)

● 1695 - Henry Wharton, English writer (b. 1664)

● 1726 - Evelyn Pierrepont, 1st Duke of Kingston-upon-Hull, English politician

● 1778 - Thomas Augustine Arne, English composer (b. 1710)

● 1815 - Franz Mesmer, Austrian developer of hypnotism (b. 1734)

● 1827 - Pierre-Simon Laplace, French mathematician (b. 1749)

● 1827 - Alessandro Volta, Italian physicist (b. 1745)

● 1829 - John Adams, last surviving HMS Bounty mutineer (b. 1766)

● 1849 - David Scott, Scottish painter (b. 1806)

● 1876 - Marie d'Agoult, German-born writer (b. 1805)

● 1893 - Hippolyte Taine, French historian (b. 1828

● 1895 - Henry Rawlinson, British soldier (b. 1810)

● 1895 - Nikolai Leskov, Russian writer (b. 1831)

● 1903 - George Francis Robert Henderson, British soldier (b. 1854)

● 1907 - Friedrich Blass, German classical scholar (b. 1843)

● 1925 - Johan Jensen, Danish mathematician (b. 1859)

● 1926 - Clément Ader, French aviation pioneer (b. 1841)

● 1927 - Franz Mertens, German mathematician (b. 1840)

● 1931 - Fr. Arthur Tooth SSC, Anglican Clergyman prosecuted and imprisoned for ritualist activities (b. 1839)

● 1940 - Cai Yuanpei, Chinese educator (b. 1868)

● 1944 - Max Jacob, French poet and writer (b. 1876)

● 1945 - Lena Baker, American murderer (b. 1901)

● 1947 - Alfredo Casella, Italian composer (b. 1883)

● 1953 - Sergei Prokofiev, Russian composer, (b. 1891)

● 1953 - Joseph Stalin, Georgian leader of the Soviet Union (b. 1879)

● 1953 - Herman J. Mankiewicz, American screenwriter (b. 1897)

● 1955 - Antanas Merkys, the former President of Lithuania (b. 1888)

● 1963 - Patsy Cline, American singer (b. 1932)

● 1965 - Chen Cheng, Chinese politician (b. 1897)

● 1965 - Pepper Martin, baseball player (b. 1904)

● 1966 - Anna Akhmatova, Russian poet (b. 1889)

● 1967 - Georges Vanier, Governor General of Canada (b. 1888)

● 1974 - Sol Hurok, Russian-born impresario (b. 1888)

● 1977 - Tom Pryce, British Formula One driver (1977 South African Grand Prix)

● 1977 - Jansen Van Vuuren, Dutch volunteer marshall (1977 South African Grand Prix)

● 1980 - Jay Silverheels, Canadian actor (b. 1912)

● 1980 - Winifred Wagner, German opera producer (b. 1897)

● 1981 - Yip Harburg, American lyricist (b. 1896)

● 1982 - John Belushi, American actor (b. 1949)

● 1984 - Tito Gobbi, Italian baritone (b. 1915)

● 1984 - William Powell, American actor (b. 1892)

● 1988 - Alberto Olmedo, Argentine comedian (b. 1933)

● 1995 - Vivian Stanshall, English musician, artist, actor, writer, Bonzo Dog Band (b. 1943)

● 1996 - Whit Bissell, American actor (b. 1909)

● 1997 - Samm Sinclair Baker, American diet author (b. 1909)

● 1999 - Richard Kiley, American actor (b. 1922)

● 2000 - Lolo Ferrari, French actress (b. 1962)

● 2004 - Walt Gorney, American actor (b. 1912)

● 2006 - Richard Kuklinski, Mafia hit man (b. 1935)

HOLIDAYS AND OBSERVANCES

● Roman Catholic:
● St. Adrian (died 308)
● St. Caron
● St. Carthach
● St. Ciarán Saighir, patron of the Diocese of Ossory
● St. Colman of Armagh
● St. Gerarda
● St. Gerasimus
● St. John-Joseph of the Cross
● St. Kieran
● St. Olivia (died 308)
● St. Phocas and Antioch
● St. Piran's Day - Cornwall's national day.
● St. Theophile (died 195)
● St. Virgilius of Arles
● Bl. Dionysius Fugishima

● Russian Orthodox Christian Menaion Calendar for February 22 (Civil Date: March 5)
● Opening of the Relics of Holy Martyrs at the gate of Eugenius at Constantinople.
● Martyrs Maurice and his son Photinus, and Martyrs Theodore, Philip, and 70 soldiers, at Apamea in Syria.
● Saints Thalassius, Limnaeus, and Baradates, hermits of Syria.
● St. Athanasius the confessor of Constantinople.
● St. Telesphorus, pope of Rome.
● St. Peter the Stylite of Mt. Athos.
● New-Martyr Theoktista Michailovna, fool-for-Christ of Voronezh (1936).
● New-Martyr priest Michael Lisicin (1918).

● Greek Calendar:
● Martyr Anthusa and her 12 servants.
● St. Blaise, Bishop
● Repose of "Golden Grits" (Gregory) (1855)
● Repose of Schema-nun Avramia of Kashin (1855).

● Boston MA : Boston Massacre Day (1770)

● Learn from Lei Feng Day in China.


Click on this LINK to see original Wikipedia list with many having links with details.

Additional facts taken from:

On this day in the New York Times

The BBC’s Take on the day

On This Day Website

Geov Parrish's this Day in Radical History, things that happened on this day that you never had to memorize in school.

Scope Systems Any Day Website

Roman Catholic Saint of the Day

Russian Orthodox Christian Menaion Calendar

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